Garment hanger shield



1949 F. o. KESTNER ETAL 2,491,896

GARMENT HANGER SHIELD Filed Feb. 14, 1948 BY WdZzam WJY FQZA, wMMw W. W

Patented Dec. 20, 1949 2,491,896 GARMENT HANGER-SHIELD Fred 0. Kestner, Chicago, and William W. MeFall, River Forest, 111., assignors to Package Masters, Inc., Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application February 14', 1948, Seria1No. 8,386

1' Claim.

The subject matter of this invention is a simple, very inexpensive paper shield or protector for a wire garment hanger, whereby garments draped on the latter are protected from becoming soiled or injured by dust, rust or any roughness likely to be present on the downwardly divergent garment supporting shoulders of the hanger.

It is an object of the invention to provide a paper shield of the foregoing type which may be blanked out at high speed in large quantity lots, which is made ready for use by the spot application of a pressure sensitive adhesive to certain predetermined areas thereof, and which maybe applied to a wire garment hanger with great speed and ease to thereafter prevent contact of a garment with the bare surface of the hanger arm or shoulder.

Another object is to provide a protector of the foregoing type in the form of a simple paper blank having flap portions adapted to be folded and adhered directly to the wire garment hanger itself, thereby positively preventing displacement of the protector prior to and after the draping of a garment over the shielded hanger.

A more specific object is to provide a garment hanger shield of the foregoing description which is creased for folding along predetermined lines in order to dispose certain flaps defined by said lines about the downwardly divergent arms of a garment hanger, and which is provided with zones of a pressure-sensitive, latex-type adhesive overlying said fold lines in a substantial area on either side thereof, to the end that said flaps and the body portion of the shield immediately adjoining the same may be adhered to one another in closely enveloping relation to the wire hanger arms.

The foregoing statements are indicative in a general way of the nature of the invention, but other and more specific objects will be apparent to those skilled in the art upon a full understanding of the construction and operation of the device.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is presented herein for purpose of illustration, but it will be appreciated that the invention is also well adapted for embodiment in other modified forms coming equally within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings,

Fig. l is a plan view of a simple, inexpensive blank died out from a light grade paper sheet and provided at appropriate areas with a suitable pressure-sensitive latex-type adhesive. in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view illustrating a shield constructed from the blank shown in Fig. 1, as operatively applied to a conventional wire garment hanger; and

Fig. 3 is a view in section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, the reference numeral In designates a truncated triangular paper blank from which the shield or protector is formed. This blank may be died out from a cheap paper stock, since no particular characteristics of rigidity, strength, resistance to tearing, etc. are required thereof. The blank is provided with a central body portion 1 I having upwardly and inwardly convergent fold lines 12 adjacent its opposite upper corners, the angularity of which corresponds to that of the arms or shoulders of a conventional wire garment hanger. These lines define a pair of like flaps 13 which are adapted to be folded onto the body ii of the blank along said fold lines.

The blank is coated with adhesive 14 over a substantial area extending across each of the fold lines 12 and onto the flaps l3 and body l l on either side of said fold line. This adhesive is of the pressure-sensitive, latex-type adapted to adhere to itself and, to some extent, to uncoated areas. The body ll of the blank is preferably sufficiently deep to cover one side of the wire garment hanger 15 in its entirety, as illustrated in Fig. 2, except for the usual suspending: shank l6 and hook ll of said hanger.

In employing the shield, the hanger is disposed on the adhesive bearing side of the body 111 with its downwardly and outwardly divergent garment supporting arms approximately coinciding with the fold lines I i. Flaps 13 are then folded around said lines to wrap the same about the hanger arms and pressed to the latter and to the body 11, so as to cause the superposed zones of the adhesive bearing areas 14 to be united, as well as to adhere said areas to the hanger arms.

The hanger is now ready for use and has the advantage that the close adherence of the shield to and around the hanger arms effectively prevents displacement of the shield from operative position, even when roughly or hastily handled. This is a. distinctive improvement over certain protectors of the general type which employ no adhesive or like securing means, or which rely upon less positive types of securement. Moreover, the permanence of the shielding provisions and the fact that a large area of the shield is exposed to view adapt the construction to be extensively printed with advertising, decorative or identifying matter. Thus the shield may be emonaco ployed very advantageously as a promotional medlum.

We claim: v

A protector for garment hangers of the type characterized by a suspending element and a supporting portion having a pair of downwardly divergent garment supporting arms, said protector comprising a flat, flexible sheet having a single, generally triangular-body adapted to cover one full side of the hanger supporting portion when the protector is applied thereto and having attaching flaps flexibly connected to said body for folding about said hanger arms and onto the body, and an area of pressure sensitive, latextype adhesive applied to said sheet to overlie the folding zone at which each of said flaps is folded about a hanger arm and onto said protector body, said flaps being snugly secured about said arms when the protector is applied to the hanger, with the respective portions of the adhesive on the flaps and body in adherent relation to one another 4 at said folding zones and immediately adjacent said arms, said adhesive portions being of subtion to the latter.

FRED 0. KESTNER. WILLIAM W. McFALL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Katz Sept. 5, 1939 Number 

